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Cobblers Children

“Daughter the place of My feet is Holy ground and as you go about your ordinary daily life, know “I AM” the Anointed One living in you, infusing every movement with Perfect Peace. The Cobbler’s Children have no shoes because they have learned that selfless pace prepares My way. No shoes implies your warfare is completed in Me and self-restriction for the sake of another.” (Isaiah 40:2)

How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth

The barefoot ones are at home in My presence, their lives manifest a wholesome sweet-smelling fragrant offering to the Lord.

Elijah prepared the way punctuating the air with his “highs and lows” coming in and out of My Presence.
Yet it was Elisha, who received the double mantle, taking My Presence into every moment as did my Son.

Acts 10:38, “How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with Him.”

He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God

If we are to walk worthy of His call, then we must follow His example. Washing another’s feet rids His Body of impurities, cleansing and refreshing the Whole.
The barefoot selfless ones are perfectly at home with His presence and their lives manifest His peace.

They have learned that their warfare is accomplished and they can kick off their shoes and be at home with Him.
When our feet are shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace (Eph. 6:15), that is when we are soldiers of the Good News of Jesus Christ. Only then are the shoes necessary for defending our ground or marching forward in battle.
But the Prince of Peace lives with the overcomers and the shoes are off in true worship.

True worship is taking off your shoes, altering “your” course, changing “your” pace to tend to their needs.
Galatians 6:2, “Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.”
The body we’re talking about is Christ’s body of chosen people. Each of us finds our meaning and function as a part of his body. As we be what we were made to be, without enviously or pridefully comparing ourselves with each other, or trying to be something we aren’t, the Body aligns itself in proper union with Christ, our Head.

We learn to be like Jacob at the Brook Jabbok. “Jabbok” means “Emptying” and that is what Jacob did at the Brook, he was emptied of SELF.
In Hebrew “Jabbok” is synonymous for a bottle. Consider the sound a bottle makes as you empty out its contents.

Sound comes from vibrations. Striking a bottle makes a sound.
When a bottle is full, it cannot vibrate as much, it produces a slow vibration and a low sound.
The emptier the bottle, the faster vibration and higher sound.

Pitch is a measure of the speed of the vibration.
Blowing into a bottle makes a different sound than striking.
Blowing into the empty bottle makes a low sound because it makes the air not the container vibrate.
If the bottle is already full, there is less air to vibrate. This means the air will vibrate faster and the sound is higher.
Rapid vibrations create a high pitch while slower vibrations result in a lower tone.
An empty bottle produces a lower pitch because there’s lots of air in the bottle to vibrate.
Adding water to the bottle decreases the amount of air space which means there is less air to vibrate. These vibrations happen more quickly and produce a higher pitch.

Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors

Jacob became like a bottle being poured out and emptied of “self.”In the place of emptiness, comes the blessing!
Jacob transformed to Israel: a new name; a newnature; a newlife.
Turning from the dark place of wrestling, Jacob sees God’s face and learns the blessing of leaning.

The living fragrance diffuses through the selfless barefoot ones.
No rushing in where angels fear to tread but total reliance on God.
There is no greater gift than His manifest daily presence.
Bare feet represent the weakness of “self“, the place of His strength perfected in our weakness.

The place of weakness – the place of power.
Israel’s victories began at Gilgal.
Joshua 5:8, “And it came to pass, when they had done circumcising all the people, that they abode in their places in the camp, till they were whole.”
John the Baptist.
John 3:30, “He must increase, but I must decrease.”
Paul’s thorn in the flesh.
Romans 7:18, “For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwells no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.”

We are not “all that.”
John 12:25, “He that loves his life shall lose it; and he that hates his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.”
Weakness leans on His Sufficient Grace.

Empty of “self” refilled continually by His Holy Spirit is true worship He flows freely in then out.

As the woman with the issue of blood came to the end of all that she had, clinging
to the hem of His garment: her weakness receiving the wholeness of strrengthening faith.

God allows no affliction without providing a greater blessing because of it.

Just as John the Baptist sent preparing the way for Christ, so the affliction hallows and prepares the ground for the blessing of Almighty God.
The blessing of His strength in our weakness.
Weakness clings, trusting in His strength.
Self-confidence wrestles with God.
Let go of “self” and receive His strengthening blessing.

The cry of helplessness draws the Father nearer.
Stop running away, it is a useless fight. Face the weakness and turn leaning and clinging to the Lord Who is the Strength of your Life.